In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Budgeting helps us save. Saving can be done by (1) _________ income and expenses. If your expenses (2) _________ your income, it means you are unable to prioritise your expenses. First, it is important to (3) _________ your expenses according to the priority. This will definitely help you to (4) _________ where most of your expenses are done. The money left after limiting the expenses is your saving and after that you can think of your (5) _________ .
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
figure out
The sentence: 'This will definitely help you to (4) _________ where most of your expenses are done.'
What the blank needs. Two things point the way. The verb must mean to work something out or discover it, and it must be able to take the clause 'where most of your expenses are done' as its object.
Figure out satisfies both. It means to understand or determine something after thought, and it takes a wh- clause naturally: 'figure out where the money goes', 'figure out how it works'.
Why the others fail:
Collaborate means to work together with other people. Reviewing your own spending is a solitary act, and the verb also cannot take this object.
Take in means to absorb information, or to deceive someone. Neither sense fits a deliberate act of analysis.
Underestimate means to judge something as smaller than it really is — which would defeat the whole purpose of budgeting.
The answer is figure out.
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